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Re: Carbon parts

Postby fez » Fri, 17 May 2013 11:02 +0000

rhysmate wrote:What are you hoping to gain from it? There really isnt alot to be gained apart from tweaking the timing and getting some good plug leads. Maybe 4-5 hp.. a good uprated airbox like an arc setup maybe. But cold air intakes do very little.

Raising the bonnet doesnt do anything though. The air outside the engine bay is a high pressure which would keep the hot air in. Ive heard ppl getting less performance out of it.


I'm not planning anything really at the moment, just engineering geekery.

There should be a low pressure area at the front of the bonnet created by the air hitting the front of the car like this. although I'm not sure how bluff the mx5 would be compared to the brick e class merc in the pic.

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Re: Carbon parts

Postby [L'e$kro] » Fri, 17 May 2013 11:17 +0000

I believe those "aero" mods are really for show more than go. If you are concerned about the aerodynamics, have a look at recent PPC mag issues, they build a low budget MX5 turbo sprint car, and apparently there is a lot more to be gained from a flat floor and rear diffuser than bothering with wings/spoilers/lips etc on the top.
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Re: Carbon parts

Postby fez » Fri, 17 May 2013 12:09 +0000

yeah, I've been reading that alright. However, if you've a flat bottomed car, you're basically sealing the engine compartment everywhere except at the radiator, where there's a high pressure area. Once you start moving, the pressure will equalize inside and out, and you'll get no flow through the radiator. Without venting to the bottom, which would defeat the purpose of the splitter & flat bottom, the only suitable places to vent are at the front of the bonnet in the low pressure area like fergus' bonnet or the garage vary one (which is still probably a bit far back) or in the wings behind the wheels.

its something I'd love to try, but I'd have to get lots of thermometers, manometers, a bonnet, some vented headlight covers and a lot of aluminium to make my flat bottom.
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Re: Carbon parts

Postby CarbonMiata » Thu, 06 Mar 2014 4:30 +0000

Hey,

I am Marc, the founder of CarbonMiata. I found this topic by chance really and glad I did. I started CarbonMiata is 2012 and I am proud to say that I did increase the number of parts in my catalogue pretty decently and have hundreds of happy customers everywhere in the world! Of course the website is not making me rich but I do it out of the passion I have for the MX-5 so when I see posts like this:

charged_rs wrote:be very aware there is alot of fake carbon coming from china

its actually black woven fibreglass ;)
http://www.fibreglast.com/product/Black ... ass_Fabric

quality and carbon and cheap........ something isnt right there ..trust me! i do alot of carbon kevlar work and in my opinion it is unlikely that he is making this stuff from real carbon fibre.


charged_rs wrote:plus its not real carbon fibre- its black fibreglass woven to look like carbon

these are fibreglass prices and in fairness they have a nice finish but they are not carbon- trust me

he contacted me and wanted to buy one of everything i sell so he could copy it , i lol'd and said no


Firstly who the hell are you? Are you that guy that everybody bashes on MX5Nutz? Making fiberglass copies of every popular Japanese Roadster part?

My parts are all REAL carbon fiber and not black fiberglass woven. You are trying to sound like a specialist but what do you know? Do you really think that I would sell fake carbon fiber and try to fool everybody when anybody with a half brain would immediately make the difference?

Ask the hundreds of customers I have if I sell fake carbon fiber. Finally whats with telling people that I contacted you to copy all your range of products? Are you f****** kidding me? Way to try to talk shit about a other shop and spread some rumors. If your products were so good as you say they were then you wouldn't need to resort to such underhanded tactics to build up your client base.

You sir need to stop bullshitting around and get a life.

I am sorry but I never get angry at comments or criticism on the internet as that's fairly common with ecommerce business but if someone slanders me for no apparent reason I can't help but respond accordingly.

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Re: Carbon parts

Postby charged_rs » Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:56 +0000

im not even going to get into a debate with you

Maybe some genuine stuff comes from china - like your genuine garage vary replica rain rails, your copied jubiride wide arches,nakamae rep quilted carpets etc, etc.

As for those emails you sent to me about buying stuff to "take a look at " and me refusing - i still have them. Would you care for me to post them on here ?

As for nutz, its no secret , its a clique forum and a yes i het bashed on there but it is organised by a few members in the south. you even join the band wagon of bashing me - just to refresh your memory. its not a forum i frequent so i dont worry about what happens there , afterall , its the internet.

How you feel about my comment here is exactly how i feel about nutz , but its the internets so all serious stuff! do what i do marc - build a bridge - get over it!

And for your information marc , i mostly only copy parts that are out of production or stupidly expensive and make them more affordable and accessible to the average joe on the street..
Kindly go back to your Chinese sweatshop and stop trying to be holier than thou... maybe you should try and prove that legit carbon is being used.

After all , considering the price of genuine carbon fibre / epoxy resin .vacuum bagging process / curing , trimming and clearcoating ( which if you were using quality resin should not need done) and the fact you are nothing more than a middle man who employs/ makes use of a sweatshop , so by the time you take your cut , the workshop have covered costs and made profit and considering the prices you charge , i really cant believe you are using genuine carbon twill fabric.
Your process is very labour intensive so something has to give somewhere!
Also i think you claim to be using Japanese carbon fibre , which with the current exchange rates should make your prices more than they are.
It has to be said China hasn't a great reputation for genuine stuff.
Someone somewhere is telling little white lies or maybe the Chinese work for nothing and carbon fibre is super cheap to import from japan to china.
therefore someone somewhere is getting a bad deal, maybe its the consumer ( being told its carbon when its likely not) , maybe its the workers in the sweatshop you use (being paid next to nothing) or maybe its your suppliers for selling stuff super cheap, or maybe ive got you all wrong and you are doing this with little to no profit , a true gentleman just out to benefit the mx5 community.


And yes i do make all the parts i sell and have done for 14 years now - so feel im in a better position than you ( ie a middle man who doesn't actually make anything) to state an opinion on whether something is probably not real, and fair play to you for selling your stuff to hundreds of people...it does looks nice and shiny and if that's all your customers want and they are happy keep buying your stuff, you should keep selling what they want fake or not..you don't need me to tell you that.

And as for slagging you off on the internet, its a 2 way road! i mentioned earlier you joining the nutz crowd bashing me, well- didn't you comment on nutz that my prices for a garage vary rear light panel made from fibreglass was just too expensive at £140 or something on an ebay auction ? i think your comment was £140 for fibreglass..wow..maybe i should start selling on ebay !
I haven't seen you sell fiberglass stuff cheap ever but you are more than happy to comment on my prices ! remember i make all the part i sell myself , i don't rely on a workshop full of slaves that are being exploited!

the parts you have sold on ebay to date have not earned you very great feedback! 87.5% out of 17 transactions

i guess you just need to toughen up and only criticise others if you can take criticism yourself.
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